{"id":4705,"date":"2018-02-13T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2018-02-13T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:56:19","slug":"nuclear-forensics-undergraduate-summer-school-program-now-accepting-applications-summer-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2018\/02\/13\/nuclear-forensics-undergraduate-summer-school-program-now-accepting-applications-summer-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Forensics Undergraduate Summer School Program Now Accepting Applications- Summer 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFUSS is a six-week course,\u00a0sponsored by the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security<\/a>\u00a0(DHS), designed to provide undergraduate students with comprehensive, experimental, hands-on training in topics essential to nuclear forensics. This program will be held June 11 to July 20, 2018,\u00a0at the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. Through laboratory experiments and complementary lectures, students are introduced to the practice and technical aspects of nuclear forensic science. The program will also include a field trip to\u00a0Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0(ORNL).<\/p>\n

Nuclear forensics involves examining materials recovered from radiological and nuclear events of an illicit or hostile nature in order to determine their character and origin. Nuclear forensics conclusions, combined with information from law enforcement investigation and intelligence, help identify those responsible for planned and actual attacks.<\/p>\n

Nuclear forensics supports the U.S. Government commitment to identify and hold fully accountable any state or non-state actor that willfully supports, enables, or engages in hostile weapons of mass destruction activities that threaten the United States or our allies and partners.<\/p>\n

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